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No. 617,937. Patented lan. I77 |899.

C. H. REMINGTON.

GOUNTING ATTACHMENT FUR ROTARY PAPER CUTTERS.

(Application led July 16, 189B.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES Il. REMINGTON, OE IVATERTOWN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ITIIE,

C. R. REMINGTON & SON COMPANY, OE SAME PLACE.-

COUNTING ATTACHMENT FOR ROTARY PAPER-CUTTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,937, dated January 17, 1899.

Application lell July 16, 1898. Serial No. 686,140. (No model.)

lable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specifica-tion.

rlhis invention relates to certain new and useful improvements'in attachments for paper-cutting machines, and especially to a device for counting the sheets of paper as they are cutby a rotary cu tting-cylinder and when a certain number of sheets are cut the ringing of a bell as a signal to the operator in charge, who may remove the sheets thus counted, and the counting repeated.

More specifically my invention resides in the provision of an attachment to a rotary paper-cutter, whereby at each revolution of the rotary cutter an intermittent rotary movement is imparted to aratchet-Wheel by means of a pitman which has an eccentric connection at one end with the shaft of the rotary cutter while its other end is pivoted to a link carrying a pawl which is designed to engage with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel for rotating the same. In connection with the foregoing I provide a meansfor tripping a bell-v hammer as many times as may be desired during each revolution of the ratchet-Wheel. To these ends and to such others as the in wention may pertain, the same consists, further, in the novel construction, combination, and adaptation of parts, as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed and then specifically dened in the appended claim.

The present invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which drawings similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout both views, in Which- Figure lis an enlarged View in side elevation of the ratchet-wheel, bell, pawl, and pit- 'end of the link b, before referredto.

man, showing the bell-hammer, which rides on a series of pegs. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail View, in side elevation, of the ratchet- Wheel, arranged with means for striking the bell at Various times during the revolution of the ratchet-Wheel.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates-the plate, secured to the end of the frame of the rotary 6o cutter. This plate carries a stub-shaft c, on which is pivoted the link I), also the ratchetwheel e.

In the drawings, R designates the rotary cutting-cylinder, which may be of lany wellknown construction and which does not form any part of the present invention. This cutter ismounted on a shaft supported in the frame of the machine, and pivoted on a pin O, eccentrically mounted in the end of the said 7o shaft p, is one end of the pitman a, the other end of which pitman is pivoted to the upper Pivoted to the said link at any suitable location is the pawl d, the free hooked end of which rests normally on the toothed circumference of the ratchet-wheelf In order to arrange themechanism so that the bell m Will be struck a number of times during each revolution of the ratchet-wheel, 8o it is my purpose to employ the construction shown plainly in Fig. 2. In Fig. 2 I have showna bell-hammer h, which is pivoted to the plate A and has a contracted portion i, as shown. Carried on said hammerXis the block Z. The ratchet-wheel has a series of perforations near its circumference in its face a suitable distance apart, and in these perforations pins S are adapted to be placed, against which pins the block Z, carried by the 9o hammer, is adapted to strike in the revolution of the said ratchet-Wheel. lIf it is desired to have the bell strike four times in one revolution of the ratchet-wheel, four pins are to be placed equal distances apart in the rouT of perforations. If it is desired to have the bell strike more times during the revolution ofthe ratchet -Wheeh the pegs are placed nearer together, and each time a pin strikes the block the hammer will strike the bell, as Ioo will be understood.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new: and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A device for counting sheets of paper as they carried hy the bell-hammer and provided with an inclined under surface which is dis-- posed inthe path of the revolving pins, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHAS. H. REMINGTON.

Witnesses:

A. E. MCALLIsTER,' J. F. LUTHER. 

